My birthday wish

For my birthday I decided to donate all my hair (well most of it) to Locks for Love, a non-profit organization that uses donated ponytails to provide the highest quality hair prosthetics to financially disadvantaged children and return a sense of self, confidence and normalcy to children suffering from hair loss. My birthday wish is that my reciepient be blessed with not only my hair, but health and happiness. Looking back at the 27 years that God has given me, I have been so blessed, that hair is such a small thing to most of us, yet priceless to a child who is teased for not having any hair due to illness. We take so much for granted and forget the small blessings that God provides each day. I feel so unworthy at times when I think of so many that are suffering, but I give all the thanks and praise for all that I have. So this year I say "cheers" to you and your family and may we all be reminded of the simple joys in life!

Live, Laugh, Love,
Moni

 On my way to donate my hair!!! Yikes...I'm a bit nervous but mostly excited!

Wow..its a bit shorter than I wanted, but it was well worth it! I feel 10 pounds lighter!

Easter Blessings

Happy Easter to you all! Its been a busy holy week preparing for this important celebration, and we are happy its finally here! This is one of our most favorite holidays not only because we get to eat lots of chocolate filled eggs, but we are reminded yet again of Christ's love and passion for each of us sinners. We, like most of you, are not perfect people and we faulter more than we wish we would, but Easter is a wonderful time to adore and thank our Savior for suffering and dying on the cross for you and me. We pray and hope you spend wonderful moments with your family and friends this Easter, but most importantly with our Lord Jesus Christ! We love you.

Mr. and Mrs. Valdez

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

So I'm on my way to work one day and notice a smoker on the street that someone had thrown away. So I drive by to scope it out and it still was in pretty good condition. So being that I wanted a pit REALLY bad for sometime now, I go back home to bring my two dogs with me to not look like a weirdo.So we walk about half a mile to the house where the grill is at and I'm thinking I can take this smoker back home one handed, but that bad boy wasn't going to be that easy. I took a few steps with it and was already tired. So being that I had two dogs with me I tied each leash to two of the legs and lifted one end of the pit. This only terrified Hope because the pit was rattling while we walked. So I now had to remove the dogs from the legs and hold their leashes with one hand and wheel the pit with my other hand. As a walked two trucks drove by me, not a single one asking if I needed help. Going the whole way home the pit was so loud rattling along with two dogs freaking out, you might think that I felt embarrased, but I didn't, I felt more embarassed for my fellow neighbors who saw this skinny man with two dogs wheeling a pit and failed to lend out a helping hand. Oh well, I scored me a free smoker and has already been put to good use. Pictures of ribs soon to come:)

Caught the toilet paper theif

Someone has been toliet papering the inside of our house, and we had an idea of who it might be. But to make sure, we had to catch them in the act. So I planted myself in the bathroom and waited for the theif..and well you will see in the video who I caught doing it!

So then after catching her, I start cleaning up after her mess, and she decides to come back for more but didn't realize I was there, so she got scolded yet again. Sorry Hope you must learn your lesson! (told by Moni)

Our spoiled dog PJ

We have a toddler bed that we keep for our nephew Marcus when he stays over, and well its in the same room that we have PJ and Hope's crates. Well PJ took full advantage last night and instead of sleeping in his crate all night we found him in the toddler bed. Some days he thinks he's a cat, other days he thinks he's a boy. Either way he's still spoiled!

Spring has finally come

Over spring break we had new carpet installed in our guestroom and office. Wow! What a difference it made. In our garden we had our first bluebonnets grow! Our pear tree has baby pears growing and our papaya tree is taking off! We plan on planting our vegetables soon, but fear that the weather can take a turn on any day. We took our first bike ride on the trails this past weekend and can't wait to do some sightseeing, camping and hiking over the next few months. We are just praying that the hot weather doesn't get here too soon!
Hugs and Kisses- Jesus and Moni